YIMBY News for 10/5

[Eric Budd]

In Denver’s Five Points, jazz is the recipe for sparking a comeback on historic Welton Street

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 46.38. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, condo, construction, development, downtown, house, housing, income, parking, parking lot, project, regional transportation district, rent, segregation, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

[image: A man plays an electric bass guitar outdoors near a "Five Points Denver, CO" sign, with cars and trees in the background.] Story first appeared in: Devante Jackson-Brown is sweating a little as he stands over his smoker, the heat and sweet smoke surrounding him while he flips chicken wings and stirs a vat of black-eyed pea stew with collard greens outside a brewery on a warm September night. The jazz band playing at Spangalang tonight is setting up on an outdoor stage, and a crowd begins to gather in the beer garden. Up the block, kids are drawing with chalk on the sidewalk outside Duk

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Carman: Here’s a honey-do list for Trump’s troops coming to ‘train’ in a city near you

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.45. apartment, bike path, construction, cost of housing, downtown, housing, project, rent, zone

When the president suggested last week that American cities should be used as “training grounds” for U.S. soldiers, a lot of us in Denver wondered who on earth they’d find to shoot here. Since these people by definition are sent into battle to kill people in war zones around the world, it’s hard to fathom what they’d use for target practice in LoDo, downtown, RiNo or along the Cherry Creek bike path. I mean, exactly what kind of “training” does he have in mind if it doesn’t involve weapons? Burpees? Deadlifts? Goose-stepping? Rest assured, it’s unlikely they’d come to Denver, especially since

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